Oh

At the 2020 census, 19,434 Americans bore the surname Oh — 1,808th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 15,400.

By the numbers

People: 19,434
Rank: 1,808th
How common: 1 in 15,400
Per 100,000: 6.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Korean

From Korean ^오(吳).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Oh described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 93.5%
White, not Hispanic 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.03%

Notable people called Oh

Sandra Oh (born 1971)Canadian and American actress
Oh Hyeon-gyu (born 2001)South Korean footballer
Oh Se-hun (born 1994)South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer, model and actor
Oh Jin-hyek (born 1981)South Korean archer
Oh Beom-seok (born 1984)South Korean association football player
Sadaharu Oh (born 1940)Taiwanese professional baseball player, coach
Oh Yeon-seo (born 1987)South Korean actress, pop singer and model
Oh Ha-young (born 1996)South Korean singer

People named Oh with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Oh

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.